Volleyball Adds NJCAA All-American Maike Bertens

PEORIA, Ill. -- First-year Bradley Volleyball Head Coach Alicia Williams wasted little time hitting the recruiting trail, announcing former Iowa Western All-American Maike Bertens (Santiago, Chile/Deutsche Schule Santiago/Iowa Western) has been added to the 2022 roster after the 6-1 outside hitter enrolled at Bradley for the 2022 Spring Semester, which started Wednesday.

Bertens was a two-year letterwinner for Williams' Iowa Western teams, helping the Rievers to back-to-back NJCAA Division I national championships during the 2021 calendar year. Bradley Volleyball's first student-athlete from South America dating back to when Delia Kong (Peru) was a member of the 1974 squad, Bertens earned…